Fat Tony.
Posted on 04/02/2012 4:42:11 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Sebelius: Youth Violence Leads to Asthma and Obesity By Penny Starr April 2, 2012
(CNSNews.com) – Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Monday that youth violence is a “chronic health issue” that can lead to asthma, obesity, or depression for "the youth who are involved," although she did not make clear whether she was speaking solely about the victims of youth violence or the perpetrators or both.
“But it's important to remember--you just heard from the law enforcement side of this--it’s important to remember that the costs of violence go beyond deaths or injuries or tolls on families and communities,” Sebelius said at a Department of Justice conference Monday on youth violence. “Violence is also a chronic health issue.”
“It leads to asthma, it leads to obesity or depression among the youth who are involved,” Sebelius said at the event in Washington, D.C.
Sebelius went to say, “It’s an economic issue. Currently, it’s thought to cost about $14 billion in medical costs and lost productivity, not just for those acts of violence. And that clearly doesn’t include the economics of the violence itself on communities.”
Youth violence “creates an incredibly vicious cycle since those who witness violence are more likely to become violent themselves,” said Sebelius. “And what all of you today have recognized is that just as the cost of youth violence can affect the whole community, the solutions to youth violence have to come also from the whole community. And at the Department of Health and Human Services, I’m here to tell you that we are committed to supporting that work, both here with our strategies and policies in D.C. but also through our regional offices and our assets on the ground throughout the country.”
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Fat Tony.
Just another reminder that everything you do, how you live your life is going to cost something and be factored into Obamacare. They will claim that you must comply or face a punishment because it costs in the name of Obamacare.
They will regulate you and punish you.
So much for freedom. You will be trapped.
WTF????
This reminds me of the DirectTV commercial, “Don’t Wake Up in a Roadside Ditch.”
I never cease to be amazed at the total ignorance of the obammyites. I have never in my 73 years seen an American president surround himself with as many commies and just total idiots as this puke has done.
If this slime gets re-elected we as a great nation are finished.
These characters in Hussein’s administration are unreal. Freaks.
Is she living in that alternate reality called planet Gore? Sounds like the same sort of musing.
OK, this is the most retarded antigun statement yet? Like saying stabbing someone in the heart causes heart attacks?
Proof that liberals are insane.
You didn’t? Well, it also causes flatulence, halitosis, flat feet, bed wetting, incontinence, wimpyness and a host of other insecurities... Kathleen says so and that makes it all true.
hold on just a second now.
i clearly recall the ‘80’s when we had to stamp out cockroaches in the inner cities because roaches caused asthma. It had been scientifically proven. And lack of playgrounds caused obesity.
Taxpayers spent millions and millions on Raid and jungle-gyms.
now your telling me it’s human caused and the poor little cockroaches were railroaded? It’s a tragedy, I say, a tragedy!
You can see how they are going to take behaviors, assign illnesses to those behaviors, and coerce you into compliance by telling you your behavior is costing the government money, so you must do as thay say if you want treatment.
These scumbags in the Ob regime are truly crazy people.
What type of wacky tobaccy was she smoking?
The Death Queen Sebelius reminds me of a Hitler henchman.
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